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tfm "m" 9999999QeOQBPep LETTERS TO EDITOR JUDGES OFF THE TRACK Editor Day Book: Courts were originally supposed to be established for the purpose of dispensing justice. Of late years, too many of our judges seem to be laboring under the delu sion that the dispensing of justice is a mere incident, instead of the main purpose, of courts. That' process of mental manufac turing which consists in keeping bold verbal legal propositions consistent with each other seems to be their idea and ideals" of justice; and what ever happens to be ground out by this method, no matter how it looks or smells, is justice with them. President Wilson in his address of welcome to the American Bar Asso ciation rendered the country a great service by puncturing that notion. He insisted that lawyers and judges were custodians not merely of commands, but of the spirit of righteousness, which he believed could be translated into action and into ordinance. Brother Wilson is by no means alone in that belief. The millions of American citizens are still unaware that there has been a wide departure from that elementary proposition, upon which we all supposed our courts were founded and maintained. The fact is the mental gymnastics of many judges, utterly stripped of anything savoring of jus'tice, has so overlaid with a covering of legalism the elementary principles enunciated by the president, that they sound like new. Henry Knaus, 735 W. Garfield. RELIGION AND AMERICANS Editor Day Book: Just for a mo ment forget if you can such good men as Priest Phelan of St. Louis or Father Callagher of Chicago and ask yourself "What constitutes an Amer ican?" A person is either an Amer ican or not at all. There's no such a thing as a bad American. An American stands for that which is true, pure and honest, irrespective of religion. Are these Americans, the men, be they Jews or others, who grind out the very life blood in sweatshops of men, women and children all because of "greed for gold?" What about the worker who sliirks his part of the work and is always trying to shove it over on to the other fellow? How about the man or woman who develops a child into a drunkard by continually putting the glass of beer to the infant's lips to drink? Then there is the man who makes home life disagreeable, like the woman who carries gossip into the home, and won't do this or that because the "other woman" said "if I were in your place I wouldn't do it, no siree." What about those who advertise $15 suits of clothes, worth $27, who sell at wholesale prices, goods that you can get elsewhere for the same money at retail, who placard the city with posters showing a man going to choke a woman, and choking her on another poster, who place vulgar or suggestive postcards in their win dows, likewise those who print them. These are just a few offshoots as it were. Many more could be brought forth suggesting crime and deceit, in fact, training criminals. Would such, men or women be AMERICANS? Not if an American is one who stands for truth and justice, and that is what an American stands for. Many there are who are Americans in name, but not by nature. Right wrongs no man. Scotty. o o SOCIALIST MEETINGS TONIGHT 18th ward, Irving school, Lexing ton and Hoyne avs: 26th ward, Ham ilton school, Cornelia and Marshfield av.; 27th ward, Hagen school, Wil son and Hamlin avs.; 28th ward, Pul aski school, Leavitt and Coblentz sL, and 35th ward, Spaulding school, Spaulding and North av. o o French railway in Indo-China uses metal sleepers entirely. asaossaaam